There’s one thing that will strike fear into the heart of any PC gamer: a CPU bottleneck. It’s unimaginable that you wouldn’t get the full power of your GPU when playing games, which is often the most ...

For many PC users, a CPU bottleneck is the scariest thing that can happen to them. The moment they hear this term, their mind conjures up images of crippled performance, lackluster framerates, and ...

Yep, we're talking about CPU bottlenecks again. The B word is one of the scariest things for the average gamer, so much so that people waste too much time on bottleneck calculators without ...

A week ago, Microsoft teased a new update to DirectX 12 for developers that will usher in "a new era of performance and efficiency." Today, we've got more details on what the new 'Work Graphs' entail ...

For AI and similar enterprise workloads that are heavily reliant on GPU and storage resources, CPU bottlenecks can cause significant idle time, but enterprise storage leaders at HighPoint Technologies ...

A more powerful GPU usually means your games run better, but that's not always the case. The CPU's role in tasks and scheduling can bottleneck performance in some instances. Microsoft has been testing ...

CPU usage is a measure of how much work the processor is doing, which varies depending on the specifications of the CPU. CPUs with more power will have a greater percentage of CPU usage. Having more ...

Why do we complain about hardware bottlenecks when the software isn't written to take full advantage of all the cores and oomph hardware has? Why is it always the fault of the hardware and not the ...

With silicon clock scaling largely dead thanks to the laws of physics, computer scientists and chip designers have had to search for performance improvements in other areas -- typically by improving ...

I am a big Call of Duty fan, and my current system gets down into the low 40s in FPS, sometimes worse, depending on the size of the map. I.e. if I look through a sniper scope on a large map, it'll go ...